Vermont · Nonprofit
LEGAL SERVICES VERMONT INC
LEGAL SERVICES VERMONT INC (Vermont) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,447,314 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($1,357,314). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $446k
What Legal Services Vermont Inc does
Mission
To provide legal services to as many low income vermonters as possible. Lsv will seek to increase the knowledge and understanding of low income vermonters through a variety of education strategies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Case services: to provide information, legal advice, pro se assistance, representation and referral in non-criminal matters to low-income vermonters.
$922,253 spent$477,844 earned by the program43% of program spendingHelp: to provide legal advice and representation to low-income vermont tenants facing eviction due to the impact of the covid-19 crisis and to assist tenants with accessing rental assistance programs.
$430,479 spent20% of program spendingTechnology initiative grants: to improve the delivery of effective, efficient, and high-quality legal assistance and education to low-income vermonters by making improvements to web services.
$170,623 spent8% of program spendingPrivate attorney involvement: to recruit attorneys to provide pro bono services to low-income vermonters. Network for crime victims: to provide direct services and referrals to attorneys to victims of all types of crime facing civil legal issues related to their victimization. Pro bono initiative: to improve internal processes for engaging and referring cases to pro bono attorneys and to increase the number of volunteers and the variety of pro bono programs available to assist low- income vermonters with civil legal issues. Migrant services: to provide information, assistance and referral to h2a migrant workers facing legal problems associated with their employment.
$622,299 spent$73,707 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,145,654.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.1M to $597k (−44%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 61% · 2018 59% · 2020 56% · 2021 53% · 2022 57% · 2023 38% · 2024 45% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of LEGAL SERVICES VERMONT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $13k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of LEGAL SERVICES VERMONT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
LEGAL SERVICES VERMONT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LEGAL SERVICES VERMONT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
LEGAL SERVICES VERMONT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
LEGAL SERVICES VERMONT INC has grown faster than half of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LEGAL SERVICES VERMONT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40 on record.
- Registration for Meetings&Conf$40
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LEGAL SERVICES VERMONT INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Vermont Legal Aid Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEGAL SERVICES VERMONT INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES VERMONT INC?
- LEGAL SERVICES VERMONT INC (Vermont) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,447,314 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($1,357,314). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGAL SERVICES VERMONT INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,447,314 in grants to LEGAL SERVICES VERMONT INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGAL SERVICES VERMONT INC?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,357,314 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGAL SERVICES VERMONT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing